If you are playing on Minecraft' Bukkit multiplayer servers, you may've heard of a server-sided plugin called ChestShop. Maybe some of servers that you visit even use it. Now, a fact is, that it has a couple of bugs with different negative effects (from server balance point of view). Yes, that happens, plugins do have bugs sometimes. A problem is, that on many servers that I visited, administration would either ignore fact of there being something wrong, or even denying possibility of bugs existing - in both cases taking no steps to fix anything, even if given an explanation, how to.
So I'm publishing a list of bugs with more or less comprehensive information, including measures that need to be taken to exclude these.
Here's a video demonstration (with version 3.46) and a description of each bug pictured in video:
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Monthly Archives: January 2013
GameMaker: Finding resources by name
Once in a while you might want to get a resource index out of it's string name, like so:
instance_create(x, y, 'obj_item' + string(irandom_range(1, 3)));
But, resource indexes aren't strings, so that wouldn't work.
You could add indexes into an array, or have a little switch-statement, but take a bit to set up.
So let's see what else you can do about this,
Continue readingGameMaker: Circular cooldown rectangle
I do not know the exact name of this visual effect (angular/clockwise fade-in/fade-out?), but it is one of the most common things that you can see in interface of RPG and RTS games, displaying progress of construction/upgrade/ability cooldown. So, to the point...
You can read how this is actually being implemented, or just scroll down to the bottom of post and grab the code and/or GMK file.
Implementation of such is actually pretty simple,
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